Colossians 2:11

New American Bible - revised edition

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:4

Be circumcised for the Lord, remove the foreskins of your hearts, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Or else my anger will break out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of your evil deeds.

Mark 14:58

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands.’”

Luke 2:21

When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. The Presentation in the Temple.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,

Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

Romans 2:29

Rather, one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, not the letter; his praise is not from human beings but from God.

Romans 6:6

We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin.

Romans 7:24

Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body?

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly dwelling, a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

Galatians 2:20

yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 4:22

that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskins of your hearts, and be stiff-necked no longer.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord, your God, will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being, in order that you may live.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, we who worship through the Spirit of God, who boast in Christ Jesus and do not put our confidence in flesh,

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

Hebrews 9:11

But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation,

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.